In a game played at Ollie Amick field at Scott City park that started just after 6 pm with game time temperature around 50 that ended about 8:30 and the temps in the lower 40's with a steady wind out of the north at 20 mph plus all evening long, the Eagles defeated their conference foe, the Rams 5-4. defeating them for the first time in three years.
The game was originally scheduled to be played at Oran, so the Eagles were the home team on the scoreboard.
Oran picked up the win despite committing six errors and having what appeared, at the time, a near-fatal base-running blunder.
Clay Sauceda got the start on the mound, his first appearance of the year. He gave up single tallies in each of the first three innings, before a shutout fourth.
Meanwhile, the Eagle offense had its chances but, once again could not get the big blow it needed.
In the second, Sauceda led-off with a single back up the middle. Cole Priggel walked and with one out, Ty Johnson reached on an infield base hit to load the bases. All three were stranded.
In the third, Layne Johnson doubled to start things off. With one out Sauceda reached on an infield error. Drew Reischman drew a walk to load them up again. Nobody crossed the plate.
The Oran offense finally managed to score in the fourth. With one out Kole Simms walked. Denver Elfrink moved him up with a single to right. Layne Johnson followed that up with a single to left. Simms was held at third, but Elfrink did not see the stop sign and was caught in a rundown between second and third. Johnson was able to advance to second on the play. Todd Priggel drilled a base hit to right that scored Simms and Johnson. Reischman then singled, but the Eagles could do no further damage and still trailed 3-2.
Todd Priggel took the mound in relief to start the fifth. Scott City used a single sandwiched between two Eagle errors and a questionable hit batter call to score an unearned run to make it 4-2.
Oran went one, two, three in their half of inning number five.
The Rams managed two singles and a walk in the sixth but did not score.
Sauceda erased a lead-off single when the runner attempted to steal. A single and a strike-out followed. Then came an intentional walk, but a ground ball to Cole Priggel at short was turned into an inning-ending force out at third, setting up the dramatic bottom of the seventh.
Scott City had gone to its bullpen with two outs in the sixth. He had walked one and struck out one in that frame. In the seventh, he threw eight straight balls to Reischman and Sauceda to put the tying runs on. Cole Priggel hit an 0-2 pitch into the hole at short for an infield single to load the bases. Jacob Shoemaker then hit what appeared to be a pop foul out of play over the first base dugout. But the gusting wind blew it back into play and the ball actually landed in fair territory on the infield dirt. It was called an infield fly rule for the innings first (and only) out. Ty Johnson would force a run home with a four-pitch walk. Oran now trailed by one, 4-3. The Rams made a pitching change and brought in a new pitcher. Simms had a 2-2 count and then stroked the next pitch past a diving first baseman driving home Sauceda and Cole Priggel and the celebration was on.
Todd Priggel picked up the win to improve to 2-0. He went three innings. He gave up one unearned run on five hits, he walked one and struck out four. Sauceda threw four, allowing three runs, two earned, on five hits, one walk. He struck out four.
Oran had nine hits on the night. Eight batters got into the hit column. Layne Johnson had two. Simms and Todd Priggel had two rbi each. Ty Johnson had the other run driven in.
The Eagles improved to 4-3 overall, surpassing to .500 plateau for the first time this season. They are 2-0 in the Scott-Mississippi conference.
Oran will host Woodland on Monday in a baseball/softball doubleheader starting at 4:30.
*Note: On Thursday two Eagle seniors played in their 100th game. The two were Layne Johnson and Drew Reischman.
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